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Savannah attorney Lawrence Edward Madison today was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole and a lifetime probation for the 2009 aggravated sexual battery of an 18-year-old woman.

Chatham County Superior Court Judge James F. Bass Jr. added a 20-year consecutive sentence for child molestation of the same victim in 2006 and 12-month, concurrent sentenced for two counts of sexual battery.

Madison, 53, was convicted by a jury June 11 in what prosecutor Emily Thomas said was six yeas of victimization of the child/woman which began when she was 11 until age 18.

Thomas urged Bass to impose the mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years for the aggravated sexual battery with additional time for the defendant’s conduct after the verdicts were returned when he hurled slurs at the victim before being removed from the courtroom.

Madison’s conduct in the case amounted to “use and misuse of the judicial system in a way that re-victimized” the victim and for which he showed no remorse.

Defense attorney Michael Schiavone asked that Bass impose minimum terms, noting that the 25-year with no parole minimum amounted to a life sentence given the defendant’s age.